[Nouveau] [Bug 68835] [NV04] Script offset calculated incorrectly for some BMP 1.x VBIOSes

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68835

--- Comment #8 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> Hi Ilia,
> is there a guide anywhere on how to apply a patch, build the patched driver
> and use it for testing? I'm not a Linux kernel expert...

Grab a copy of the kernel (the patch is against 3.13-rc7, but it should apply
cleanly to just about any 3.7+ version), apply the patch (patch -p1 <
thepatch), and then build as usual.

Here's a (fairly complex) guide to building kernels on Fedora:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

Although that is for generating rpm's... you can probably do something much
simpler for just a local install, but I can't help with that (these distros
tend to expect initrd's, etc, which I know fairly little about and thus avoid).

Let me know if you don't plan on testing this out in the next week or so; I
think the patch is fairly safe to just check in anyways, so you'd be able to
test it out eventually in a future release.

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